backlash

backlash is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 21 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
2. noun. an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence

   "there was a backlash of intolerance"

3. noun. a movement back from an impact

   Synonyms: rebound, recoil, repercussion

4. verb. come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

   "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"

   Synonyms: backfire, recoil

Synonyms

rebound, recoil, repercussion, backfire

Common word forms

backlashed, backlasher, backlashes, backlashing

Words from these letters

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